Implement reform processes in education for posterity
June 1
EDUCATION is the best investment
for society with a long-term plan to improve the socioeconomic life of the
people. Such an investment can shape a poor country to enjoy a fruitful result
of development through well-versed human resources based on an invested
education sector.
Only when a country carries out a
reform process in the education sector with short-term and long-term plans in
harmony, will the society obtain remarkable results. If something derails from
the reform process of the education sector, an unacceptable result will come
out. As such, the State leaders with farsightedness emphasized improvement of
the education sector not only for new generations but for the fortune of the
country.
In truth, education is one of the
basic human rights for all. Especially, it is important for new-generation
youths who severely suffered the impacts of armed conflicts and natural
disasters. That is why Un agencies, non-governmental organizations, civil
service societies and local organizations have to cooperate with among them in
creating learning opportunities for children and youths who are victims of
poverty.
Concerning the plights of
school-age children who missed learning opportunities, three out of ten youths
missed the chance to attend school due to monetary unaffordability. Some people
in the age-wise group from three to 50 years old with various reasons primarily
based on poverty are absent to continue learning school education.
In this regard, 1.9 per cent of
those persons do not attend school because of ailing or injuries or
disabilities; 21.5 per cent of them are unaffordable to learn school education;
29.2 of them help home business; 7.2 per cent of them join agriculture and
livestock farming tasks; 12.2 per cent of them face loss in the examination or
lack of ability to pursue education or cannot focus on learning; and 4.5 per
cent of them live in a far distance from school.
Education standards and lesser
learning opportunities will be hindrances to the development of the State
economy. If the education sector does not have any progress, any country cannot
successfully implement poverty alleviation programmes. As such, Myanmar should
emphasize reform processes in the education sector to contribute towards the
rapid development of the country.
Stabilized education sector can
turn out well-versed human resources as well as intellectuals and
intelligentsia for the society. Hence, the reform process in the education
sector should remove and stop experimentation over students under the firm
policies which must be adopted as the long-term master plan. If so, education
will grant the fortune of the country as well as its posterity.
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